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1976430various: various 1976. Wrappers. Near fine. 13 vols. All are the 1st appearances anywhere. All in original wrappers near fine. 1: Scientific American Sep. 1971. Page 194 the first ad for the first personal computer Kenbak-1. <br/>2: QST Mar. 1974. Page 154 the first ad for the first Mini-Computer Scelbi-8H. <br/>3: Radio-Electronics Jul. 1974. Pages 29-33 Jonathan A. Titus: Build the Mark 8 Minicomputer the first magazine project microcomputer. <br/>4: Popular Electronics Jan. 1975. Pages 33-38 Edward H. Roberts and William Yates: Altair 8800 Minicomputer part 1. <br/>5: Popular Electronics Feb. 1975. Pages 56-58 Edward H. Roberts and William Yates: Altair 8800 Minicomputer part 2. <br/>6: Byte Magazine. First 5 issues Sep. 1975-Jan. 1976. Loaded with goodies. <br/>7: Computer Notes Altair Users Group Nov.-Dec. 1975. Page 19 Bill Gates: The Status of BASIC the primitive interpreter originally on paper tape first revealed in Mar. 1975 a month before Gates and Allen founded Microsoft. <br/>8: Computer Notes Altair Users Group Jan. 1976. Page 1 announcement of the first Altair Convention. Page 13 Bill Gates article on programming. Page 14 Bill Gates article on software. Issues of Computer Notes are all scarce. <br/>9: Computer Notes Altair Users Group Feb. 1976. Faint stains. Page 3 Bill Gates: An Open Letter to Hobbyists Feb. 3. A highly important statement outlining what became the Microsoft business model and clarifying distinctions between proprietary vs. open-source software Altair licensed Microsoft BASIC.<br/><br/> Footprints on the summit are soon blown away but each of these items made their mark briefly for those who cared at the time so remain worth revering. In Jul. 1975 the first computer store opened in L. A. In Mar. 1976 Albuquerque hosted the first World Altair Computer Conference see no. 8 and by then even novices knew something was happening. And I note that the word "something" as I've used it in the last sentence has no synonym. various unknown books
1793008946Philadelphia New York and London : Various 1793. Five works in all each bound without original wrappers in order of binding: The Speech of Albert Gallatin delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States on the first of March 1798 upon the Foreign Intercourse Bill 2nd Edition with an Appendix Philadelphia Printed by Richard Folwell 1798 48 p. Sabin 26996. shallow chip and prior owner name in ink top edge of title page evenly browned WITH The Political Censor for Nov. 1796 Remarks on Citizen Adet's notes to the Secretary of State no place Philadelphia no authorPeter Porcupine no publisher William Cobbett 1796 5 - 78 p. Evans 30226. pages 73-78 with top and bottom fore corner chips not affecting text a few widely scattered spots of browning. WITH A New Year's Gift to the Democrats; or Observations on a Pamphlet entitled "A Vindication of Mr. Randolph's Resignation" Second Edition Philadelphia Published by Thomas Bradford Printer by Peter Porcupine William Cobbett 71 p. shallow chip fore edge of title page early writing top edge of title page evenly browned. WITH Persecution The Case of Charles Pigott; contained in the Defence He Had Prepared and Which Would Have Been Delivered by Him on His Trial if the Grand Jury had not thrown out the bill preferred against him London Printed for D. I. Eaton 1793 by Charles Pigott vi 52 p. lacking the half-title slight toning else clean and lovely. WITH A Dissertation Concerning Political Equality and the Corporation of New-YorkNew York Printed by D. Denniston by James Cheetham 1800 50 p.Shaw & Shoemaker 37171. evenly toned. Overal Very Good bound in contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards spine label titled "Pamphlets" in gilt on darker brown calf the binding rubbed and worn at the corners yet solid. Gallatin's Speech last seen at auction 1961 not found in current commerce. The Case of Charles Pigott not found in current commerce one in dealer's catalogue in 2020 no auction record at RBH. Cheetham's Dissertation on Political Equality last seen at auction 1946 none in current commerce. . Quarter Calf. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Various Hardcover books
6943Washington 1898 & 1899: Government Printing Office. Hard Cover. Two volumes in original matching red cloth lettered in gilt: The Report of the Boundary Commission 1898 Parts I and II is quarto 240 pages; the ALBUM volume 1899 is oblong folio 14" x 11 and had 2 title leaves the second being "Views of the Monuments and Characteristic Scenes Along the boundary Between the United States and Mexico West of the Rio Grand. Reproduced from Photographs Taken Under the Direction of the International Boundary Commission 1892-1895." With 258 black and white illustrations of the Monuments. Quarto. Both volumes are very good to fine with slight fading to the spine of the "Report" volume. A very handsome pair now quite scarce on the market. <br/><br/> Government Printing Office hardcover books
CAT0169Various Places. Most 1940s-1950s various formats. Very Good. A wide-ranging collection of Toscanini material found amongst his scores in the estate of his grandson Walfredo. The highlight is a late draft of his speech "To The People of America" an important document in Italian-American history that was printed in Life Magazine during the Second World War. <br /> <br /> Full descriptions as follows:<br /> <br /> Typed Draft of Arturo Toscanini's "To The People of America" with Corrections in Toscanini's Hand.<br /> New York September 3 1943. <br /> A late typed draft of Arturo Toscanini's "To The People of America" which appeared ten days later in Life Magazine. Corrections in the hands of Walfredo and Arturo Toscanini. From the Toscanini estate. "On 13 September 1943 the editorial page of Life Magazine was occupied by an article entitled 'To the People of America' and signed by Arturo Toscanini; It was the only extensive declaration he ever wrote - and it was about politics not music. The article had originally been intended as a letter to President Roosevelt and the first drafts had been prepared for Arturo Toscanini by the Italian historians in exile Gaetano Salvemini and Giorgio La Plana who were both teaching at Harvard University at the time. They knew that their beliefs and Arturo Toscanini's coincided perfectly and they wanted the letter to appear over his signature because his fame was much greater than theirs. In their letter to President Roosevelt the exiles stated their hopes and fears for Italy's immediate future and they tried - as the text illustrates - to influence allied policy toward their native country." Harvey Sachs The Letters of Arturo Toscanini page 389. Sachs wrote in his 1978 biography of Toscanini that Toscanini wrote the article on his own but then found evidence to the contrary. Regardless of its hidden origins this letter was a defining moment in Toscanini's career in the United States. This copy from September 3 would have been one of the final drafts. The text is nearly identical to the published version with a few small changes - "defying everything" is added in the fourth paragraph of the published version the "." marks are replaced by simple periods in a few instances and "just" has been replaced by "righteous" in the published version. Strangely the one error in AT's hand - moving the word "either" in the sixth paragraph - did not make it into the printed version. A remarkable piece of Toscanini ephemera. Four pages carbon paper with text on rectos only. Excellent condition overall with some normal tanning. A few stray corrections in pencil which an accompanying folder from the estate states are in Walfredo's hand. <br /> <br /> A Collection of Nine Letters to Arturo Toscanini from his Colleagues.<br /> <br /> These letters were found inside various scores and sheet music in the Toscanini estate. A wonderful collection quite effusive in nature most containing high praise for the maestro discussing the works of various composers and lamenting the passage of time. Contains the following items: 1 Typed Letter Signed from Harold Byrns to Arturo Toscanini. New York 1942. 2 Typed Letter from Associated Music Publishers to Arturo Toscanini. New York 1949. 3 Manuscript Letter from Max Reiter to Arturo Toscanini. San Antonio 1948. 4 Typed Letter from Domenico Savino to Arturo Toscanini. New York 1945. In Italian. 5 Manuscript Letter from Adolf Busch to Arturo Toscanini. S.p. s.d. 6 Manuscript Letter from Carlton Cooley to Arturo Toscanini. Stockton New Jersey 1956. 7 Autograph Letter from Robert Casadesus to Arturo Toscani. Princeton 1940. 8 Autograph Letter Signed from Pina Carmirelli to Arturo Toscanini. Rome 1951. In Italian. 9 Typed Letter from Foetisch Freres to Arturo Toscanini. Lausanne 1948. scanini. Lausanne 1948. <br /> <br /> Four Original Photographs of Arturo Toscanini in Rehearsal March 1954 with Negatives.<br /> New York 1954. <br /> <br /> A collection of four 9 x 7 photographs of the great Toscanini in rehearsal with their original negatives. From the estate of Arturo Toscanini. The images show Toscanini casually dressed in a white short-sleeved shirt conducting his orchestra. All photos are stamped "File Copy / Do Not Remove" and have holes in upper left corners from thumbtacks and have inventory numbers written in ink. The inventory numbers - which all contain the prefix "33107" suggest that they could be for the rehearsals from his final performance on April 4. <br /> <br /> Typed Letter from Arturo Toscanini to his Orchestra 1940.<br /> N.p. July 22 1940. Typed letter text on recto only.<br /> Arturo Toscanini wrote this letter to his orchestra upon the completion of a successful South American tour in 1940. He writes: "My dear friends sic Tomorrow our trip will be over. To-morrow we will be separated after two months we lived day by day the same life. It is very sad indeed but that is life. We have never been so linked all as one as in these 16 concerts. We must be proud of what we have done. God bless you all." The full text of the letter appears on page 374 of Harvey Sach's The Letters of Arturo Toscanini. Some indecipherable notes on margins in an unknown hand a few small various stains good condition overall. <br /> <br /> Christmas Card to Arturo Toscanini from the Embassy of the USSR 1943.<br /> Washington 1943. Card with stamped envelope 6 x 5 inches. <br /> A Christmas card to Arturo Toscanini from Fedor Orekhov First Secretary and Press Representative of the USSR Embassy in Washington. Addressed to Toscanini at his Sycamore Street residence in Riverdale New York.<br /> An interesting group all quite well preserved in excellent condition. unknown books
185000182872057593498894297: Various 1850. Softcover. Seven pamphlets published between 1842 and 1872 related to artist co-developer of the Morse Code and co-inventor of the single-wire telegraph system Samuel Morse 1791 - 1872 and the telegraph. - Morse Samuel; et al Electro-magnetic Telegraphs. Report No. 17 To Accompany Bill H. R. No. 641. December 30 1842. S. l. Washington DC: s. n. 1842. First edition; 9 1/2 x 6 1/2; pp. 13 unopened; light age-toning; two punctures for filing to left margin; a small nick to head of spine; small contemporary manuscript note to first page; illustrated with a wood-engraved diagram of "the alphabet for Morse's electro-magnetic telegraph;" very good condition.Printed for the 3rd Session of the 27th Congress of the House of Representatives the pamphlet contains a letter to Samuel Morse complimenting him on his invention by scientist first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and inventor of electromagnets Joseph Henry 1797 - 1878 a letter by Morse describing the history of his electro-magnetic telegraph two reports from the Committee on Commerce and the Committee of Arts and Sciences of the American Institute etc.- United States Department of Treasury Electro-magnetic telegraph. Communication from the Secretary of the Treasury Transmitting the Report of Professor Morse Announcing the Completion of the Electro-magnetic Telegraph between the Cities of Washington and Baltimore. Doc. No. 270 June 6 1844. S. l. Washington DC: Blair & Rives Printers 1844. First edition; 9 x 6; pp. 3; deckled fore-edge; age-toning to margins; a few spots of foxing; very good- condition.Published for the 1st Session of the 28th Congress of the House of Representatives Treasury Department the pamphlet presents a report by Samuel Morse on the experiment and successful completion of establishing a "system of electro-magnetic telegraphs between Washington and Baltimore. Also included is an estimation of the cost for his American telegraph compared to the cost of the English one.- United States Department of Treasury Magnetic Telegraph. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury Transmitting a Letter from Professor Morse Relative to the Magnetic Telegraph. Doc. No. 24 December 23 1844. Read and Laid Upon the Table. S. l. Washington DC: Blair & Rives Printers 1844. First edition; 9 x 6; pp. 18 partially opened; spots of foxing mostly to margins; a few nicks and wrinkles to edges; two punctures for filing to left margin; illustrated with an wood-engraved diagram and tables; very good- condition.The pamphlet contains a letter by Morse to Chairman of Committee on Commerce Isaac Holmes describing new developments surrounding his electro-magnetic telegraph as well as various experiments conducted.- Vail Alfred Description of the American Electro Magnetic Telegraph: Now in Operation between the Cities of Washington and Baltimore. Washington DC: Printed by J. & G. S. Gideon 1845. First edition; 9 x 5 3/4; pp. 24 lacking back wrap else complete; front beige wrap with an elaborate engraved border; small loss of paper to lower corner and a penciled-in note to front wrap; illustrated with 14 large wood engravings; two punctures for filing to left margin; good to very good condition.Alfred Vail 1807 - 1859 was the co-inventor together with Samuel Morse of the telegraph. He was in fact the recipient of the first message transmitted in Morse Code - "What hath God wrought" - sent by Samuel himself. He would be responsible for several innovations and improvements to the system expanding Morse's numeric code to include letters and special characters. The booklet described in detail the components of the telegraph its principle "specimen of the telegraphic language" what would become the standard version of the code etc.- Houston John House of Representatives. Legislative Telegraph May 18 1848. Laid upon the Table. Report No. 642. S. l. Washington DC: s. n. 1848. First edition; 8 3/4 x 5 1/4; loose sheets pp. 8; uniform age-toning with a few spots of foxing; discolored spot to upper half of sheets; some nicks and cuts to edges; good or better condition.The report discusses the inventions by Francis H. Smith Stephen Bowerman and R. E. Monaghan and possible applications of a machine for accelerating the taking of Yeas Nays and other votes in the House of Representatives.- Kendall Amos Morse's Patent. Full Exposure of Dr. Chas. T. Jackson's Pretensions to the invention of the American Electro-magnetic Telegraph. Washington: Printed by Jno. T. Towers 1852. First edition; 8 3/4 x 5 3/4; pp. 64; uniform age-toning to wraps; a small discoloration to upper corner; a few spots of foxing; very good condition.Amos Kendall 1789 - 1869 was a lawyer journalist politician and business manager of Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail. His current rebuttal was prompted by Dr. Charles T. Jackson's 1805 - 1880 claim that he had discovered the telegraph before Morse and Vail. Jackson was a physician and scientist notorious for his continuous claims of prior discoveries of major scientific inventions. Apart from the telegraph Jackson had also started controversies over William Beaumont's digestive action of the stomach William T. G. Morton's anesthetic effects of Ether and others.- Smith Francis O. J. History Getting Right on the Invention of the American Electro-Magnetic Telegraph. S. l.: s. n. n. d. 1872. First edition; 8 1/2 x 5 1/2; pp. 21; scattered small spots; a manuscript note to title page; thin strip of paper loss to last leaf not affecting text; very good condition.Concerning more drama surrounding Morse's invention of the telegraph the pamphlet was written on the occasion of the erection of the Morse Monument in Washington and contained articles and letters claiming that scientist Joseph Henry rather than Morse had invented the system. The author Francis Ormand Jonathan Smith 1806 - 1876 had been Morse's publicity agent counsel and quarter-interest partner but eventually had had a falling out. Various paperback books
1970002618Various: Various 1970. First Edition. Very good. Eight posters ca 1970 - 1974; various sizes approx. 38 x 26 and 19 x 27; all in protective laminated sleeves; condition varies from good with nicks to edges creases and closed cuts to margins to very good or better with minor wrinkles and wear. A significant archive of posters they were published at the height of the Cold War and showcased the Bulgarian performing-arts scene under the guardianship of Liudmila Zhivkova 1942 - 1981 - a senior member of the Communist Party and daughter of Bulgaria's Communist Leader Todor Zhivkov. Remembered for her goal to promote the country's culture and arts on the international stage as well as to bring foreign culture to Bulgaria Liudmila was a controversial figure viewed by some as a forerunner of alternative ideas and freedom in the friggidly-unwielding totalitarian bloc and considered a spoiled "Red Bourgeoisie" child by others. At least one of the posters a double-sided one promoting the screening of Mikhai Semesh's Hungarian movie "The Magic Fur Coat" was created by renowned graphic designers Anton Mechkuev 1920 - 2011 and Grigor Angelov 1941 - . Another one for the premiere of the Bulgarian drama "The Best Person I Know" featured beloved Bulgarian actress Nevena Kokanova 1938 - 2000 known as the "first lady of Bulgarian cinema." Several of the posters listed opera and jazz performances a Greek play and puppet shows at several major theaters. One was a propaganda for the "Bulgarian Musical Youth" Movement for all young people who were Komsomol members. Various unknown books
1737983793Ballets in Paris from 1737 to 1755 <br /><br /><b>Recueil of 13 ballets performed at L'Academie Royale de Musique </b>Published by Ballard . Bound in one volume quarto contemporary calf. With printed and corrected index tipped in to front pastedown<br /><br /><br /><i>This is an important period for the development of ballet in France with the maturity of Jean-Phillipe Rameau's music; the debate over French versus Italian musical forms; and the introduction of the "Danse d'Action" precursor to Noverre's reforms in movement; all of which are reflected in these ballet texts </i><br /><br />1. Les Amours du printemps. 1739 2. Les Fêtes d'Hébé. 1739. e.o. 3. Zaide reine de Grenade. 1739 4. Dardanus . 1739 5. Nitetis. 1741. e.o. 6. Ballets comiques: Don Quichote chez la Duchess Les Amours de Ragonde. 1743. e.o. 7. Isbé 1742. e.o. 8. Le Pouvoir de l'amour. 1743. e.09. Les Caractères de la folie. 1743. e.o.10. L'École des amans. 1745. 11. Zélindor Roi des Silphes. 1745. e.o. 12. Les Augustales. 1744. e.o.13. Les Festes de Polimnie. 1745. e.o.<br /><br />Link to full description. Cut and paste the link below:<br /><br /><b>www.goldenlegend.com/pdfs/ballard2.pdf</b><br /> Ballard, etc books
1876009587<p>The transcontinental <i>Lightning Express</i> captured the attention of the nation while transporting a theatrical troupe from New York to San Francisco in under 84 hours a record-breaking time for an opening night performance. <br /></p><p>The national excitement generated by the arrival of the <i>Lightning Express</i> in Oakland was incredible and not to be again matched until Charles Lindbergh landed the <i>Spirit of St. Louis</i> in Paris fifty years later. This grouping consists of <br /></p><p><p style="margin-left:5%; margin-right:10%;">A rare transcontinental cover franked with a 3-cent green Washington stamp Scott #158 that has been canceled with a circular postmark that reads "Jarrett - Palmer's / Special Fast Trans-Continental Train" and is dated "New York / June / 1-1876 / 12.10 A.M." It bears an oval "4 June / 1876 receiving handstamp from "E. Rass & Co. / San-Francisco". There is an advertising corner card from Leon & H. Blum New York City dry goods merchants. <br /></p><p><p style="margin-left:5%; margin-right:10%;">A postal card Scott #UX3 reporting the arrival of the Lightning Express which is dated "Oakland June 4th" and canceled with a 'circle of Vs' handstamp and a San Francisco postmark. and <br /></p><p><p style="margin-left:5%; margin-right:10%;">A newspaper clipping containing a reproduction of an original newspaper article information about the trip a map showing the location of Jarret and Palmer's Booth Theater across from Madison Square Park and a half-tone photograph of the train after it arrived in Oakland. The article was authored by Clark Kinnaird a long-time newspaper reporter who also wrote a syndicated 'history' column for the <i>New York Journal-American</i>. <br /></p><p><p>Although the envelope has no contents the text of the postal card reads in part: <br /></p><p><p style="margin-left:5%; margin-right:10%;">"Will not visit you and the Centennial but wish we could. The 'Jarrett & Palmer' lightning train arrived at S.F. Safely at about 10 o'clock this morning having half an hour to spare from their schedule time of 84 hours from New York. Great feat & everyone here is enthusiastic over it though few want to try it themselves! Tomorrow's papers will give details - will send." <br /></p><p><p>Lucious Beebe--the renowned author gourmand photographer railroad historian syndicated columnist and all-round social raconteur--vividly described the journey in his railroading classic <i>The Age of Steam <br /></i></p><p><p style="margin-left:5%; margin-right:10%;">"In 1876 . . . seven full days and nights with changes of cars at Chicago and Omaha were conventional time between New York and the Pacific Coast. When therefore a specially chartered train filled with theatrical celebrities . . . made the passage from coast to coast in the record time of eighty-four hours Americans followed the magnificently publicized event with awed enthusiasm. . . The Lightning Express was chartered by Henry Jarrett of Jarrett & Palmer managers of the Booth Theater in New York to transport the celebrated Lawrence Barrett and a distinguished supporting cast in time for the opening night of Henry V at McCullough's California Theater in San Francisco. The project instantly caught the fancy of the public and fantastic newspaper coverage was accorded the train's departure . . . over the rails of the Pennsylvania and then the Chicago & North Western--Union Pacific-Central Pacific route to California. The actors rode in ornate splendor aboard the Pullman Palace Hotel Car Marlborough while a commissary car carried appropriate food and drink and the scenery rode in a conventional baggage car. All across the continent the train's passing was the occasion for the wildest excitement and at Reno nearing the end of its run its approach was greeted with an exclamatory display of rockets and other artifices de feu. The run over the Central Pacific from Ogden to Oakland a relay of 875 miles including the High Sierra crossing was accomplished by a single engine and a single engineer Hank Small at the driver's side. No. 149 a sleek 4-4-0 achieved immortality overnight. The sooty actors weary but triumphant were met at San Francisco by Warren Leland the manager of the eye-popping Palace Hotel and taken to a breakfast of grilled salmon cucumber salad filet of Beef Bearnaise cutlets of Minden lamb escalloped veal partridges sautéed in champagne grilled Mallard duck asparagus strawberries and three kinds of eggs shirred with mushrooms and rum omelets. . ." <br /></p><p><p>That evening the night of June 4th Jarret & Palmer's <i>Henry V</i> opened on schedule in San Francisco to a sold-out house. <br /></p><p>Extremely scarce. At the time of this listing no other <i>Lightning Express</i> items are for sale in the trade. OCLC shows no institutions holding first-hand accounts of the Lightning Express nor any items or mail carried by it. Materials related to the <i>Lightning Express</i>--broadsides tickets passes stereoviews and especially carried mail--only infrequently appear at auction and they are quite expensive when they do generally bring prices between $3000 and $12000.</p> books
1915002504Various: Various 1915. First Edition. Very good. A hundred and five real photo poscards two original photographs mounted in an album with small paper corner slips covering the years 1915 - ca1930; images aprox. 5 1/4 x 3 1/2 and 10 x 8; album 13 1/4 x 10 1/4; most pictures subtitled in the margins of the photos themselves; some also identified in manuscript to verso; overall in very good to near fine and better condition with occasional wear to corners; album - leather over boards embossed to imitate aligator skin tied with a decorative string; wear and chipping to edges in about good condition. An astonishing and meticulously collected and assembled archive of photographs it represented the most important figures of the Russsian cinema ballet and theater at the beginning of the 20th century. Some of the photos were portraits while in others the artists were in costumes performing in various productions. A number of them were signed and/or inscribed in Russian and English. Two of the images were taken by renowned German-Russian photographer Karl Andreevich Fisher 1859 - . A few of the names included: Vera Karalli 1889 - 1972 - ballet dancer choreographer silent film actress and allegedly a co-conspirator in the murder of Grigorii Rasputin; actor Viktor Petipa 1878 - 1933 signed; Elza Elizaveta Kruger ca1893 - 1941 - dancer actress and later founder of the Russian Romantic Ballet Theater in Berlin; Mikhail Mordkin 1880 - 1944 - ballet master at Sergei Diagilev's Ballets Russes later founder of Mordkin Ballet in the US; Aleksandr Vertinskii 1889 - 1957 - artist composer poet and actor; Vera Kholodnaia 1893 - 1919 - the first star of Russian silent cinema most of whose films have been lost as many of her features had been destroyed by the Soviet Government after the Revolution; actress Vera Baranovskaia 1885 - 1935 signed; Vsevolod Bliumental-Tamarin 1881 - 1945 - actor director and author who officially died of a suicide in Switzerland but was allegedly murdered by Russian Counter-intelligence agents SMERSH signed; Andrei Petrovskii 1869 - 1933 - actor director and educator signed; and others. Various hardcover books
1503046839Venice: Aldus Manutius 1503. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Near Fine Condition. The first 3 books of seven. Later full leather with an attractive modern rebacking light wear at edges new endpapers page edges sprayed scattered very minor foxing a few pages with a faint tide mark to the upper right corners a few early marginal notes small ink notation crossed out on final leaf. A lovely copy of the first three books of the first Aldine Greek Anthology - in Greek throughout unpaginated A1vtitle - X8. 168 leaves of 290 in the entire work - Ahmanson-Murphy 79.<br/><br/>Based on the 1494 edition of Ianos Laskaris it makes numerous additions and improvements. The typeface the smallest of the Aldine Greek types is based on Aldus's own hand and was designed and cut by the Bolognese master punchcutter Francesco Griffo. Size: Octavo 8vo. 3 volumes of the 7-volume set. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 046839. Aldus Manutius hardcover books
1984140941196Franklin PA: The Franklin Press 1984. Complete in 100 volumes all leather bound in various colors stamped in gilt with gilt edges and moire endpapers. Near Fine overall with occasional light rubbing to bottom edges a few volumes have light foxing or wear to edges minor rubbing. Almost all volumes unread with clean bright contents. Includes information booklets. Complete title list available on request.<br /> Please note: will not ship internationally! The Franklin Press unknown books
1932WALTER-FILM004090A collection of 230 vintage photos chronicling Katharine Hepburn's 62 year theatrical motion picture career. Forty of Hepburn's fifty-three film credits are represented. It includes her classic Academy Award winning performances and multiple nominations as well as her popular classic films including: <br /><br />A BILL OF DIVORCEMENT ADAM'S RIB THE AFRICAN QUEEN ALICE ADAMS BRINGING UP BABY GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER HOLIDAY LION IN WINTER LITTLE WOMEN LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT MORNING GLORY THE PHILADELPHIA STORY THE RAINMAKER ROOSTER COGBURN STAGE DOOR SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER and WOMAN OF THE YEAR. <br /><br />The collection comprises the following photographs: <br /><br />BILL OF DIVORCEMENT 1932- 1 <br />CHRISTOPHER STRONG 1933 - 6 <br />MORNING GLORY 1933 - 1 <br />LITTLE WOMEN 1933 - 6 <br />SPITFIRE 1934 - 2<br />THE LITTLE MINISTER 1934 - 8<br />BREAK OF HEARTS 1935 - 2<br />ALICE ADAMS 1935 - 7<br />SYLVIA SCARLETT 1935 - 4<br />MARY OF SCOTLAND 1936 - 1 program with photo of Hepburn signed in pencil by photographer Ernest Bachrach<br />A WOMAN REBELS 1936 - 6<br />STAGE DOOR 1937 - 4<br />BRINGING UP BABY 1938 - 8<br />HOLIDAY 1938 - 1<br />THE PHILADELPHIA STORY 1940 - 1<br />WOMAN OF THE YEAR 1942 - 4<br />KEEPER OF THE FLAME 1943 - 13<br />DRAGON SEED 1944 - 6<br />WITHOUT LOVE 1945 - 1<br />UNDERCURRENT 1946 - 8<br />THE SEA OF GRASS 1947 - 7<br />SONG OF LOVE 1947 - 10<br />STATE OF THE UNION 1948 - 1<br />ADAM'S RIB 1949 - 7<br />THE AFRICAN QUEEN 1951 - 6<br />SUMMERTIME 1955 - 10<br />THE IRON PETTICOAT 1956 - 6<br />THE RAINMAKER 1956 - 1<br />DESK SET 1957 - 1<br />SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER 1959 - 14<br />LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT 1962 - 15<br />GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER 1967 - 13<br />THE LION IN WINTER 1968 - 25<br />THE MADWOMAN OF CHAILLOT 1969 - 2<br />THE TROJAN WOMEN 1971 - 8<br />A DELICATE BALANCE 1973 - 5<br />ROOSTER COGBURN 1975 - 4<br />ON GOLDEN POND 1981 - 1<br />GRACE QUIGLEY 1984 - 3<br />LOVE AFFAIR 1994 - 1<br /><br />230 photos total.<br /><br />The life and career of Katharine Hepburn is a true study of the independent woman. Both her professional and personal life reflect the social attitude towards independent women and their influence and acceptance throughout the 20th century. <br /><br />Born May 12 1907 in Hartford Connecticut to a doctor and a suffragette she was from birth encouraged to speak her mind develop her brain and be physically fit. Independent and somewhat rebellious from youth she shunned convention and this was embraced in her early career. <br /><br />A result of the Depression meant that many women needed to re-invent their lives -- many seeking jobs and needing to be aggressive in doing so. Hepburn's early films reflected strong women in the workforce many of them professionals -- no matter the setting and period of the story. These portrayals gave hope to women that they too could achieve independent success. The scripts were saddled with romantic convention but that made the overall story acceptable to all tastes -- particularly as the 1934 Production Code took force. <br /><br />Moviegoers became tired of the aggressive maverick as the economy improved in the late-1930s. Hepburn's home studio RKO became less open to finding the unconventional vehicles it had taken a chance on for several years and Hepburn was labeled box office poison. <br /><br />As independent in the handling of her own career's fate as she was her personal life she found her own project: THE PHILADELPHIA STORY. It became a hit on Broadway and she single-handedly launched a new and successful branch of her film career by working with MGM for the film rights and signing a contract which took her through the 1940s.<br /><br />THE PHILADELPHIA STORY bridged a gap from independent woman who gets her comeuppance to independent career woman who also needs a seemingly conventional and equal partner. This she found in her teaming with Spencer Tracy. This worked well both during and after World War II particularly as women needed to fill jobs left by men during the war thus empowering them with an independence which continued in the workplace after. <br /><br />Hepburn's 1950s and 60s career reflects attitudes towards women as they age. She starts to play spinsters such as in THE AFRICAN QUEEN and SUMMERTIME who are looking for love. As America became seemingly a bit more conservative so did some of her roles -- but the 1950s and early-60s were a strange period of convention and dark psychology and her roles in SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER RAINMAKER and LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT reflect that. As the 1960s progressed her characterizations grew to accept the changes in society such as in GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER and her roles later were those of older age reflecting on the past but embracing the present. <br /><br />Hepburn was one of the very few film actresses whose career spanned the entire sound film era of the 20th century. She would be nominated for 12 Academy Awards winning 4 and bookend her work with awards for MORNING GLORY 1933 and ON GOLDEN POND 1981. She was one of the few talents to have control over her career and one of the few to have such great longevity. <br /><br />This collection reflects nearly every theatrical film that she appeared in between the years of 1932 and 1994. It is a collection worthy of study. There are 230 photographs all but a few are 8 x 10" single weight glossy original release prints a few are slightly smaller or on double weight paper. Overall condition of the collection is FINE. Various books
196813145161968-1974 1980. Three large bound volumes containing a variety of 1960's counterculture newspapers. Thee are a total of 113 Issues.<br /> <br><br /> <br><br /> Volume 1 contains Issues of the Berkeley Barbs starting at Vol. 6 No. 7 Issue 131 February 16-22 1968 and running through Vol. 8 No. 7 Issue 183 February 14-21 1969. It contains Issues 131-146 149 150 152-159 161 162 164-170 172-176 178-183 with 174 misnumbered as 173 and 178 done twice being a total of 48 Issues.<br /> <br><br /> <br><br /> Volume 2 contains Issues of the Berkeley Barbs starting at Vol. 8 No. 8 Issue 184 February 21-27 1969 and running through Vol. 10 No. 1 Issue 230 January 9-15 1970. It contains Issues 184-204 Berkeley Tribe #2 205-214 216-221 223 225 227-230 being a total of 43 issues of the Berkeley Barbs plus 1 issue of the Berkeley Tribe. This volume includes the special Barb on Strike issue after which the staff launched their own rival newspaper the Berkeley Tribe.<br /> <br><br /> <br><br /> Volume 3 contains a variety of issues from various magazines and newspapers including: Rolling Stone issue 120 October 1972 Berkeley Barb Vol. 15 No. 8 Issue 367 August 25-31 1972 National Enquirer Vol. 46 No. 20. January 16 1972 Rolling Stone Issue 82 May 13 1971 Rolling Stone Issue 80 April 15 1971 Rolling Stone Issue 76 February 18 1974 Los Angeles Free Press Issue 333 December 4 1970 The Organ Vol. 1 Issue 2 September 1984 Tribe Vol. 3 No. 11 Issue 63 September 18-25 1970 Earthtimes No. 2 May 1970 Earthtimes No. 1 April 1970 Rolling Stone No. 53 March 7 1970 Los Angeles Free Press Vol. 5 No. 46 Issue 226 November 15-21 1968 Los Angeles Free Press Vol. 5 No. 29 Issue 209 July 19-25 1968 Los Angeles Free Press Vol. 5 No. 19 Issue 199 May 10-16 1968 Los Angeles Free Press Vol. 5 No. 16 Issue 196 April 19 1968 San Fransisco Express Cities Vol. 1 No. 12 April 11 1968 The Bay Guardian Vol. 2 No. 9 April 5 1968 Los Angeles Free Press Vol. 5 No. 9 May 1-7 1968 The Bay Guardian Vol. 2 No. 8 February 28 1968 Los Angeles Free Press Vol. 5 No. 7 Issue 187 February 16-22 1968 The Bay Guardian Vol. 2 No. 6 February 7 1968 being a total of 22 Issues. The Berkeley Barb was a weekly underground newspaper published in Berkeley California during the years 1965 to 1980. It was one of the first and most influential of the counterculture newspapers covering such subjects as the anti-war movement and Civil Rights Movement as well as the social changes advocated by youth culture.;<br /> <br><br /> <br>. 1314516. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. unknown books
1921000681Berlin and Paris: Russkoe Iskusstvo 1921-1926. Seven issues No. 1 2 7 8 9 11 12; 9 ½ x 12 ½; all first editions except #1 and #2 which are the second edition of the same corresponding months; illustrated throughout including numerous plates mounted on leaves with captions printed; pages mostly very clean No. 12 has small chips to upper corners of covers and a spot to fore-edge of first 2 pages only; No. 6 has faint foxing to lower margin of first 2 pages; colors bright; few small chips to corners of wraps not affecting illustrations; some wear to spines with some loss of paper; #11 missing front cover else all pages and wraps present and securely attached; slight age-toning to covers; overall in very good condition. Possibly the most influential and famous of the post-revolutionary art and literature journals Zhar-Ptitsa Firebird was first printed in Berlin in 1921. A total of 14 issues were published at irregular intervals from 1921 to 1926. A magnificent journalistic endeavor it represented the Russian culture abroad and challenged the boundaries between the Bolshevik agents and the immigrant intellectuals at the time. Contributors included Konstantin Somov â a brilliant artist who immigrated to the United States after the revolution but finding the atmosphere âabsolutely alien to his artâ he eventually ended up in Paris; Alexander Benois â the founding member of Mir Iskusstva; Ivan Bilibin â the illustrator and stage designer who moved to Paris after the October Revolution but longing for his country returned home in 1936 to ultimately die during the Siege of Leningrad; Natalia Goncharova â the great niece of Alexander Pushkin and one of the most revered Russian Avant-garde artists â and many others including all the members of Mir Iskusstva. The latter was not only an art journal but an artistic movement which was said to have revolutionized European art at the beginning of the 20th century. Vengerov Staraia Russkaia Kniga 105. Rarely seen on the market. Please inquire about individual issues. Berlin and Paris: Russkoe Iskusstvo paperback books
1925001319Various 1925. Hardcover. Pavlov Ivan Dvadtsatiletnii Opyt Obektivnogo Izucheniia Vysshei Nervnoi Deiatelnosti Povedeniia Zhivotnykh. Uslovnye Refleksy. Sbornik Statei Dokladov Lektsii i Rechei Twenty Years of Objective Study of the Higher Nervous Activity Behavior of Animals. Conditioned Reflexes. A Collection of Articles Reports Lectures and Speeches Leningrad/Moskva: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo 1925. Third edition 1 of 5000 copies; 6 1/4" x 9 1/4"; pp. 5 4-397 3; rebound in red cloth over boards; brown morocco label with gilt lettering to spine; uniform age-toning to text block; page edges a bit brittle with two small chips to fore-edge of first free page; last leaf publisher's advertisements with some loss of paper to lower margin; illustrated with black & white drawings; overall very good condition. A beautiful association copy from Nobel Prize winner physiologist Ivan Pavlov known for his work on classical conditioning to his pupil - Harvard educator and a world-renowned neuropathologist in his own right Paul Yakovlev. The book is signed: "Ot avtora" "From the author" on the title page. On the front pastedown Yakovlev has taped a photograph of himself seated with Pavlov with a quote in Russian and in English of their topic of discussion at the time the photo was taken: "Subcortive ganglia actuate the cerebral cortex." A second copy of the same photograph is loosely laid in the book. A third photo of aging Pavlov is taped to the first free page. The front endpaper bears Yakovlev's signature and a lengthy note: "This is personal copy of Prof. Ivan Petrovich Pavlov with a notation in his own hand: "from the author." Sent to me in Paris from Leningrad in the Spring of 1924 before the publication date in 1925. I cannot account for this." Two Yakovlev stamps are present - one is his own personal "Dr. Paul I. Yakovlev" in red ink on first free page and a second one: "Yakovlev Collection Armed Forces Institute of Pathology Washington DC" is on the title page. Numerous notes and drawings in Yakovlev's hand are scattered throughout the book. Together with: Yakovlev Paul and Halloran Roy Collected Lectures of the Seventh Postgraduate Seminar in Neurology and Psychiatry Including A Review Course in Military Neuropsychiatry. October 3 1941 - April 10 1942 In 3 Volumes Waltham Mass.: Privately printed by the authors 1942. First edition first second and third semesters; 5 1/2" x 8 1/2"; vol. I pp. 3 II-VI 1-250 2 vol. II pp. 4 III-VI 1-309 2 vol. III pp. 3 II-VI 1-528; cloth-backed paper over boards; gilt title to spines; a bit of rubbing and wear to tips of spine and corners; pages clean; very good condition. Personal copies of Paul Yakovlev's own lectures volume III bears a note in his hand: "Paul Yakovlev personal copy not to be removed from his library." Each one of the volumes has a: "Yakovlev Collection Armed Forces Institute of Pathology Washington DC" stamp to the title page. A newspaper clipping of an article on: "Neuropsychiatrists in the Army" dated in Yakovlev's hand is loosely laid in volume I. Several marginal notes and drawings are present throughout volume III. Various hardcover books
19461972New York: F-R Publishing Co. 1946. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Tight bright and unmarred. Cloth boards various colours gilt lettering and decorative elements decorative endpages covers front and rear bound in. 4to. Paginated by edition. Illus. color and b/w plates. Each year bound in four volumes in matching colors 1941 brown; 1942 navy; 1943 brick red; 1944 dark green; 1945 olive green; 1946 black. <br/><br/>Each volume includes approx. 13 to 15 individual issues filled with what has made the New Yorker famous outstanding articles and cartoons by some of the period's luminaries N.B. This was the golden age of the New Yorker Harold Ross was the editor contributors included E.B. White Joseph Mitchell James Thurber Dorothy Parker Truman Capote S.J. Perelman John McNulty Peter Arno Charles Addams J.D. Salinger Franny and Zooey first saw print in these leaves A.J. Liebling and Joseph Wechsberg. These are truly outstanding volumes. A very handsome set of books embodying some of the best short writing of the era. F-R Publishing Co. hardcover books
1752047070Williamsburg: William Hunter 1752. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Rebacked and front board recovered in leather rear board retained. Title chipped at edges and rumpled and with top margin missing but not touching text light dampstain in right margin early on old tape mark in gutter in table of contents a few pages inexpertly opened just touching marginal notes in spots browning and foxing more or less uniformly throughout contemporary marginalia and underlining to table of contents scattered other minor flaws but very good overall. 2 vi 455 1pp. Errata at end pages 207 277 and 367 mispaginated 205 267 and 357. Lacking the list of subscribers that seems to have rarely been bound in. ESTC W7023 Evans 6941 Sabin 100388<br/><br/>The first major work from William Hunter's press - he had become the official printer for Virginia the previous year. He was a friend of Benjamin Franklin with whom he split the postmaster general job for the colonies. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Americana; Law & Criminal Studies. Inventory No: 047070. William Hunter hardcover books
1903TB31835Chicago: Lakeside Press 1903 to 2019. The first 25 volumes bound in dark green cloth covered boards 1903-1926 of this complete set are in very good to near fine condition. The exceptions to this average are the 1908 and 1910 printings of Memorable American Speeches I and Memorable American Speeches IV both of which are ex-library copies with the ghosts of spine labels and with penciled library notations otherwise in very good to very good conditions. The red cloth covered volumes 1927-1952 are generally between very good to fine conditions. The blue cloth covered volumes 1953-1977 are also in very good to fine conditions. The brown cloth covered volumes 1978-2002 are in very good to fine conditions with 13 titles still in their original shrink wrap. The 19 teal cloth covered volumes 2003-2019 are all in fine condition and with one exception are in their original shrink wrap. This is a remarkable complete collection of all 119 volumes all of which are in collectible condition. Only 5 of the first 25 volumes have a prior owner's name or book plate. And one of the volumes 1919 has the signature of Thomas E. Donnelley on the third free end page. Lakeside Press hardcover books
2000140938852Portland OR: Nazraeli Press 2000. First Edition. Fine. 2000-2017. 124 Volumes 100 titles five multi-volume deluxe sets and duplicates of several titles several labeled AP for Artist's Proof. A complete run of the celebrated series which features 100 uniformly sized books of various colors giving each artist a 16-page canvas to exhibit a cohesive body of work. Each volume is limited to 500 copies and each contains one photographic print tipped in and signed by the artist--hence the name of the series. Conceived in 1998 as a way to make original art more affordable titles were originally released in groups of four generally twice a year beginning in 2000 and ending in 2017 with most copies reserved in advance for subscribers. Complete sets of the 100 titles are uncommon as many volumes are out of print; even more uncommon are those with the deluxe box sets as few were issued toward the beginning of the series. All volumes are Fine to Near Fine. Several volumes with light spine sunning or a slight shelf lean. The deluxe sets are by John Gossage Four American Photographs Todd Hido Taft Street Eduardo del Valle & Mirta Gomez Four Sections of Time all marked as "AP" or artist's proofs Judy Gelles Beach Boxes and Emi Anrakuji e hakagi Comprised of 1. Terri Weifenbach Instruction Manual No. 1: 21. May 1995; 2. John Gossage Four American Photographs 4-volume set in slipcase; 3. Terri Weifenbach Instruction Manual No. 2: 21. April 1996 "Bee"; 4. Terri Weifenbach Instruction Manual No. 3: 25. June 1996 "Blue Sky"; 5. Chan Chao Letter from P.L.F. Burma; 6. Todd Hido Taft Street 4-volume set in slipcase; 7. Ron van Dongen Rosa Ferreus; 8. Susan Hornbeak-Ortiz True; 9. Bill Jay Bill Brandt 2 copies; one signed as usual on limitation line and there the other marked "print signed on verso"; 10. Julien Coulommier Soleil Cou Coupe; 11. Yuki Onodera How to Make a Pearl; 12. Robert Adams Alders; 13. Risaku Suzuki Fire: February 6; 14. Robert Heinecken studiesnineteenseventy; 15. Don Kirby You're not really initiated until your eyes are redder than your lips; 16. Masao Yamamoto The Path of Green Leaves; 17. Martin Parr 7 Communist Still Lifes; 18. Andreas Müller-Pohle Yumiko; 19. Sara Gilbert Cues; 20. Toshio Shibata Type 55; 21. Michael Kenna Boarding School; 22. Eduardo del Valle & Mirta Gómez Four Sections of Time 4-volume set all marked as "AP" or artist's proofs; 23. Weng Fen Sitting on the Wall & Bird's Eye View; 24. Judy Gelles Beach Boxes 1 copy 4-volume set in slipcase; 25. Naoya Hatakeyama River Series / Shadow; 26. Boomoon Kwon On the Clouds; 27. Camille Solyagua Twenty-One Red-Crowned Cranes and One Black Crow; 28. Martin Parr 7 Colonial Still Lifes; 29. Jim Stone Why My Photographs are Good; 30. Stu Levy Cranial Czar Eh; 31. Ken Ohara One; 32. Steve Pyke: Post Partum; 33. Steve Pyke: Post Mortem; 34. Joseph Mills e mars Lilly's Waist; 35. Yuichi Hibi Robert Frank A Weekend with Mr. Frank; 36. Twinkako Ishiwata-Pichler Desperately Seeking Twinka; 37. Ron van Dongen A. angustatum; 38. Junko Takahashi The Receptionist; 39. Daido Moriyama Kuchibiru; 40. Emi Anrakuji e hagaki 7 volumes included with 6 unique prints; no slipcase present perhaps as issued; 41. Michael Kenna Montecito Garden; 42. Tanya Marcuse Fruitless; 43. Stephen Shore Merced River; 44. Jesse Diamond Drum Circle; 45. Nancy Honey Poodle Parlour; 46. Lars Schwander Manuel Ãlvarez Bravo: One Day in April 1999; 47. John Divola Seven Dogs; 48. Masao Yamamoto Fujisan; 49. David Maisel Cascade Effect; 50. Rob McDonald Birth Place; 51. Netta Madahar Sustenance; 52. David Tseklenis Julius Shulman Does His Own House; 53. Joe Deal Indian Bingo; 54. Raymond Meeks Doctrine of an Axe; 55. Mayumi Lake Ex Post Facto; 56. Michael Kenna Heiden Hotel; 57. Eduardo del Valle & Mirta Gómez En Vista; 58. Edward Bateman Mechanical Brides of the Uncanny; 59. Todd Hido: Cracked Trees 2 copies one numbered the other labeled "AP" for Artist's Proof; 60. Todd Hido: Crooked Cracked Tree in Fog 2 copies one numbered the other marked "AP" for Artist's Proof; 61. David H. Gibson: Water Cascade: A Sequence; 62. Eiji Ina: Wacht; 63. Alec Soth: One Mississippi; 64. Mark Steinmetz: Italia: Cronaca di un Amore; 65. Pine & Woods: For Constance; 66. Hiroshi Watanabe: Love Point; 67. Terri Weifenbach: Some Insects; 68. Sally Mann Rob McDonald and Even Rogers: Cy's Rollei; 69. Corey Arnold: Fishing with My Dad 1978-1995; 70. Joni Harbeck & Neil Krug: Indian Girl; 71. Steve Fitch: Motel Signs; 72. Liz Steketee: Dystopia; 73. Stephen Shore: Pet Pictures; 74. Martin Parr: Seven Cups of Tea; 75. Stu Levy: Honk If You Love Stieglitz: Jerry Uelsmann A Grid-Portrait; 76. Leon Borensztein: Portraits ii; 77. Carol E. Richards: Birds Have Wings; 78. Melanie Pullen: Juliette; 79. Martin Usborne: Fox About Town; 80. Risaku Suzuki: Snow Letter; 81. John Divola: Supermarket; 82. Richard Misrach: iPhone Studies: Reverse Scrubs; 83. Dan Solomon: Witness; 84. Jim Goldberg: Polaroids from Haiti 2 copies one marked "AP" for Artist's Proof; 85. Roger Ballen: The Audience; 86. Doug Rickard: All Eyes on Me; 87. Aaron Ruell: Ten Years Too Late; 88. Alec Soth: Bogota Funsaver; 89. Steve Kahn: Corridors; 90. Daido Moriyama: Self 2 copies; 91. Katy Grannan: Lion King; 92. Michael Kenna: Kussharo Lake Tree; 93. Todd Hido: Season Road; 94. Elaine Ling: Habitacion Cubana; 95. Ed Templeton: Memories of the Salt.; 96. Ave Pildas: Bijou; 97. Javier Carrillo: Las Trocas Angelinas con sus Mercancia; 98. Gregori Maiofis: Taste for Russian Balet; 99. Tomoko Sawada: Face; 100. Gloria Katz: Souvenirs. Nazraeli Press unknown books
14862616Strassburg: Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg perhaps associated with Georg Husner 1486. Folio 296 x 205 mm with 263 of 264 leaves lacking just the final blank. Manuscript index at the end. Gothic type in double columns forty-seven lines plus headline. Initials supplied in red throughout. Bound in a contemporary Cambridge binding of blindstamped calf over wooden boards by the binder W.G. Three of the present tools are reproduced in J. B. Oldham English Blind-Stamped Bindings Cambridge 1932 Plate X pp. 23-25. Intersecting triple fillets dividing the covers the center panel diapered border of repeated foliate tool the compartments containing flower fleuron rosette and fleur-de-lis tools gilt lettering piece on the spine from a later date. Lacking clasps. Joints and spine ends repaired later end papers. Paper flaw in the lower margin of F5 not affecting text. A few additional minor paper flaws a handful of early ink marginalia. An excellent copy overall. From the library of Abel E. Berland with his bookplate. Housed in a custom quarter-leather clamshell case.<br/><br/>The "Golden Legend" was extremely popular in the late Middle Ages not only on the Continent but also in Britain. Caxton printed an illustrated edition of his own translation in 1483 later reprinted by Wynkyn de Worde. But the English had to turn to copies printed abroad for the original Latin texts; as a result a number of Continental editions with early English provenances are recorded. "Depicting the lives of the saints in an array of factual and fictional stories The Golden Legend was perhaps the most widely read book of its time after the Bible during the late Middle Ages. It was compiled around 1260 by Jacobus de Voragine a scholarly friar and later archbishop of Genoa whose purpose was to captivate encourage and edify the faithful while preserving a vast store of information pertaining to the legends and traditions of the church" Princeton. Even today scholars of the period recognize it as a key Medieval text across fields in the humanities. "Art historians depend on it. Medievalists should know it inside out.For the rest of us it remains a treasure house of European culture crammed full of the things which everyone once upon a time used to know" Malcolm.<br/><br/>BMC I p 135. Copinger 6444. Goff J-117. Polain 2199. Proctor 608. Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (perhaps associated with Georg Husner) unknown books
32458Highlights include: Seymour Benzer's revolutionary genetic mapping paper "Fine Structure of a Genetic Region in Bacteriophage" 1955'; Albert Claude "Fractionation of Mammalian Liver Cells by Differential Centrifugation" 1949;' Max Delbrück's seminal talk "A Physicist Looks at Biology" 1949; Alexander L. Dounce "Duplicating Mechanism for Peptide Chain and Nucleic Acid Synthesis" 1952 important early theoretical work on genetic coding and protein synthesis; H. Fraenkel-Conrat and Robley C. Williams "Reconstitution of Active Tobacco Mosaic Virus from its Inactive Protein and Nucleic Acid Components" 1955 - the first reconstitution of a virus; J.C. Kendrew G. Bodo H.M. Dintzis R.G. Parrish H. Wyckoff and D.C. Phillips "A Three-dimensional Model of the Myoglobin Molecule Obtained by X-ray Analysis" 1958 - the first structural description of a protein.<br/><br/>20 papers by H.G. Khorana on nucleic acid synthesis and sequence analysis establishing the basic techniques of nucleotide chemistry 1954-1962; Joshua Lederberg "Gene Recombination and Linked Segregations in Escherichia Coli" 1947 - the first genetic map of e. coli.; E.L. Tatum and Joshua Lederberg "Gene Recombination in the Bacterium Escherichia Coli" 1947 is the first complete paper on the subject of bacterial mating. André Lwoff Louis Siminovitch and Niels Kjeldgaard "Microbiologie - Induction de la production de bactériophages chez une bactérie lysogène"1950 - the discovery of induction and another dozen important papers from Lwoff and his group; Jacques Monod Germaine Cohen-Bazire and Melvin Cohn "Sur la biosynthese de la -galactosidase lactase chez Escherichia coli. La specificite de l'induction" 1951 - the discovery of galactosides with other papers by Monod Linus Pauling and Robert B. Corey "A Proposed Structure for the Nucleic Acids" 1953 - Pauling's incorrect "triple helix" theory and other Pauling papers.<br/><br/>J.D. Watson and F.H. Crick "Molecular Study of Nucleic Acids: A Structure of Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid".; M.F.H. Wilkins A.R. Stokes and H.R. Wilson. "Molecular Structure of Deoxypentose Nucleic Acids;" Rosalind E. Franklin and R.G. Gosling. "Molecular Configuration in Sodium Thymonucleate" 1953. The rare three-paper offprint printed in a single column format from the single most important discovery in the biological sciences during the 20th century. <br/><br/>M.H.F. Wilkins W.E. Seeds A.R. Stokes and H.R. Wilson "Helical Structure of Crystalline Deoxypentose Nucleic Acid" 1953 and Rosalind E. Franklin and R.G. Gosling "Evidence for 2-Chain Helix in Crystalline Structure of Sodium Deoxyribonucleate" 1953 - the first experimental confirmation of the Watson-Crick double helix hypothesis; M. Meselson and F.W. Stahl. "The Replication of DNA in Escherichia coli" 1958 - the first proof of semi-conservative replication of DNA as predicted by Watson and Crick's double helix model termed "the most beautiful experiment in biology"<br/><br/>Other authors represented include: Michael S. Brown and Joseph L. Goldstein Nobel Prize 1985 S.S. Cohen Arne Tiselius Nobel Prize 1948 Robert W. Holley Nobel Prize 1968 R. Dulbecco Nobel Prize 1975 Ugo Fano Leo Szilard.<br/><br/>The majority of the items have the ownership stamp or signature of Eugene Goldwasser 1922-2010 biochemist at the University of Chicago. Before beginning his long-term project of purifying the hormone erythropoietin Goldwasser worked in the University of Chicago's phage group 1948-49 and on enzymes and RNA synthesis at Hans Kalckar's Institute for Cytophysiology in Copenhagen 1949-52. Almost all items are in fine condition. <br/><br/> A complete list is available upon request. <br/><br/> unknown books
